This console aims to provide a UI to manage all PicketLink configurations. It is still under development supporting just a small set of configurations.

We would appreciate your sugestions and feedback about the current and new features. It is just a start, the objective is to show you the idea behind the console and gather all feedback as possible to make even easier to use and manage PicketLink resources and configurations.

I had Jboss 7.1.1 installaed and your PicketLink 2.0.3 on top of it. Then unzipped the attached as7-subsystem-config.tar.gz to the JBoss root directory per your instruction. It overwrote many module files. But when I start the application I get the following fatal error.

Thank you. Yes I was using PicketLink 2.0.3. But I followed your option 2 suggestion. It works for me now. Previously I could not get the sample war files to run on JBoss AS 7.1.1 with PicktLink 2.0.2. Whereas I was able to run JBoss AS 7.1.0 and Picket Link 2.0.2. But now with the approach suggested I am able to run JBoss AS 7.1.1 and PicketLink 2.0.2. But I only tried the idp.war and sales.war as suggested by the article so far. I was able to open the PicketLink profile. I was able to see the Federation section. But I was not able to see the IDP and SP sections mentioned in the documentation. I am wondering if I am missing something or doing something wrong.

I originally tried it with Chrome. So I could not see IdP or SP tabs. When I try it in Firefox I am able to see General, IDP and SP tabs. I am able to see all the right things I would expect to see in those two tabs. I just wanted to send you a quick note that it is working in Firefox. I will try to play more and update.

Can you give me some pointers to go further with PicketLink IDP and SP. I would like have a MySQL database data store for the users and roles for the IdP. I would like to have my JEE6 application to be SP. I am looking for a sample code or any documentation to get started on this. I appreciate any help you can give me on this. Thank you.

The IDP uses JAAS during the authentication process. I think It is a matter of which LoginModule implementation you want. If you want to use a database as an identity store, there is an out-of-box LoginModule called org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DatabaseServerLoginModule. If you want to use a LDAP identity store there is also another implementation.

You can also create a custom LoginModule to do what ever you want to ....

Yes I agree. It makes perfect sense to limit only console specific questions in this thread. My apologies for corrupting it little bit. As a matter of fact I have created a separate thread with a question. Now, coming to the new console version. Also I did more tests on the previous version after my post. I will try to explain what remains the same and what is different.

When I go to the Federation tab from Picket Link once I am in Profile, the page is not updating for the first time. It just stays in the current page showing the details of JDBC database connection. Might make people to wonder nothing happening when they try the Federation link first time. Actually I faced the same problem with chrome in the last version also. We assumed it Chrome specific. But I am able to consistently reproduce it in Firefox both in old and new version. I need to kind of refresh the page couple of times to get the actual screen specific to Federation.

I see you have the View Link now which takes you a tabbed view for IDP and SPs. (In previous versions you could see all that tabs in Federation link itself). Of course this approach also works.

I am able to go to IDP and SP tabs and I am seeing what I would expect to see. No issues here. As a matter of fact in SP section, you have the right URL for Sales.war. In the previous version it was not correct. It just had sales.war instead of the actual URL. (I think it is just what user can enter. Just a side note)

I also added another SP with emoployee.war. It added as expected. No problem there either. (It also worked in the previous version the same way).

Just for the sake of completion, I want to let you know the last version also worked in Chrome. The same way like Firefox. (First time the page will not update). I tested this version also in Chrome. It throws an error or warning when you first try to get into admin portal. (GWT error sighting incompatibility from Safari version). If you ignore and continue it works like Firefox.

Though not related to the console, I just want to share few more observation I have when I tested IDP and Sales.

Sales.war part works as expected. I am not able to see any problem.

Once I log in to sales, I am able to navigate to idp without login which is good.

But in the IdP page, when I see the listed applications sales and employees, when I try those links it is not going to sales page. It is gives an error page not found. (Link is trying to jump to page sales-saml11 which is not present)

Employee.war does not work at all. Of course the instruction says it might not work.

However, the annoying message when you start in Chrome still happens. But if you just go past the message everything works in chrome. So if you can remove that message you can assume you are supporting Chrome browser also as much as I can tell.